[This series is "The 9 Marks of a Calvinist Cult" split up into smaller, individual posts.] Cults use isolation, control, fear, coercion, mind-control, and thought-reform to enslave the members to the cult. The members' "inner voices" are suppressed. 5. Information Isolation and Control Of course, Calvinists don't physically isolate members in a commune or anything like that, as more extreme cults have. But Calvinist pastors do practice various forms of "mental" isolation by controlling the information and resources. From the very beginning, Calvinist pastors set out to carefully control the information we get, the resources we have access to, the verses we hear, who's in charge, etc. Verses: Calvinists will ignore verses that contradict or disprove Calvinism , but highly favor those that can be twisted/interpreted to support it. For example: Calvinist pastors fill their sermons with verses that appear to fit...
